Last Updated: March 05, 2023, 07:50 IST
Passengers wait under pannels following a technical failure, which impact all border controls at Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, in the northeastern outskirts of Paris, on March 4, 2023. (AFP)
A woman travelling from Martinique said she had spent nearly two hours in the queue at Orly where ‘1,500-2,000 people’ were not moving at all
A computer glitch at Paris’ main Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports hobbled border controls on Saturday, causing long queues for passengers.
“A national breakdown of border police currently affects checkpoints at the departure and arrival of Paris-CDG and Paris-Orly. An extension of the waiting time is to be expected,” Paris Airports tweeted.
It was not immediately clear if other airports or sectors were affected.
Images posted on social media showed large queues of passengers waiting at Paris airport checkpoints, with some sitting on the floor.
By 2:00 pm (1300 GMT), the computer system in question was…